Posted on 11/12/2018 5:31:04 AM PST by markomalley
After private talks with President Donald Trump French President Emmanuel Macron warned the global community of the dangers of nationalism in a speech aimed directly at the rising tide of populism in the United States and Europe.
President Trump is in France this weekend to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of World War I, the great war.
Over 100,000 Americans lost their lives in Europe during World War I.
Following his remarks FOX News host UNLOADED on the French president:
Pete Hegseth: It’s typical European arrogance. It really is. So we saved your ass. And then you’re going to preach to us? No really, that’s how Americans look at this. Twice we did. And you’re going to turn around and preach to us because we love our country, we love our flags, we love our military, we love our cops, we love our Second Amendment. We really believe in our First Amendment that somehow we’re the fascists? We’re the nationalists? This guy hasn’t read a history book. Doesn’t understand history… You want to have a relationship with these countries that you think are your allies and then they turn around and point a finger in your chest!
Via FOX and Friends:
Video at link. Original YouTube link is here.
Glad somebody said it.
Amazes me most of all when German relatives lecture us about our foreign policy and morality. When I mention Hitler they get upset and go silent.
In fairness if it wasn’t for the Frogs the American Revolution would have failed. If it wasn’t for them we would still be speaking English, oh wait...
If you know the movie Galaxy Quest there is the line “do any of you actually watch the show?”
Have any of these Europeans ever taken a look at a book on European history?
Yes, some of us. Proudly.
Macron has a Pelosi like disapproval rating of 71 percent.
He will be joining Merkel in the unemployment line soon.
I looked up Patriotism in Miriam Webster and it said Nationalism was the synonym.
I don’t think I’d have been as ‘kind’ to Macron, as the author did.
There sure believed in independent sovereignty when we had our revolutionary war. This is why we tried to return the favor and protect their National independence and borders in both world wars.
It was the French MONARCHY who helped us during our revolution.
Worse yet is the utter bypocrisy. Napoleon’s France subjugated half of Europe before the megalomaniac was shipped off to St. Helena. And how many times in the last 500 years has France meddled in England’s affairs? And Italy’s? And Spain’s?
And then there was that thing in Indo-China ... Vietnam, I believe it was called.
“In fairness if it wasn’t for the Frogs the American Revolution would have failed.”
France came into our War for Independence not because they liked us, but because Great Britain was their enemy. The two countries had been at war, off and on...mostly on...since the 12th Century.
That was then.....
...this is now
Canada was once a strong ally of the US....
....now we have trippy little Trudeau.....
We must always be vigilant.....and look forward
It was their hate of the Brits that motivated the French support of our revolution.
The reason behind all this is education. The children are not taught history. Pete’s remarks have no meaning to the millennials. They are in confusion and denial.
And Morocco and Tunisia and Algeria.
Nothing is so resented as being rescued by someone considered a social inferior.
Nationalism over transnationalism, internationalism, international communism, open borders, Muslim “refugees” etc.
As they say: Bro’s before Ho’s.
And Peep’s before Left Wing Creeps.
‘Glad somebody said it.’
Me too. I tweeted Macron to ask if he insulted Pres Trump to his face. Doubt it. Coward.
The French helped the Americans against the British in the American Colonies’ war for independence, because they wanted to put a thumb in the Eye of England, who had beaten the French in the French and Indian war and had taken Canada and the Maritimes from them as settlement.
It was less than a generation before the War for Independence that the French were sending Indian raiding parties into the English colonies to kill, steal, and take slaves.
In fact, part of the reason for the imposition of additional taxes by the Crown was to offset the financial losses it suffered defending the colonies in the French and Indian war.
A whole contingent of more than 600 Scottish Highlanders were wiped out by the French and Indians at Ticonderoga, so the British had quite a stake.
If the Crown weren’t so recalcitrant, they would have allowed the Colonies to have representation, at least in the House of Commons. Not only did England fail to do this, the Crown took the Colonies’ demands for representation as effrontery to be punished. Soon, the taxes became burdensome, and the resistance to it prompted the Crown to establish occupation forces.
Very bad thinking on the part of George III.
Not that I’m a Royalist, but the Crown did prohibit slavery throughout the empire in 1833 without any bloodshed.
Once free, however, the Colonies, organized as the United States, established the freest population and free market in the world. Due to the enormous freedom the Americans enjoyed as soveriegn citizens, an alien concept everywhere else in the world, the USA soon became the most powerful economic and military force in the world.
If it weren’t for the albatross of slavery around its neck, the USA may have achieved a greater greatness and greater blessings.
The kind of thinking that cursed George III brought pain, suffering, war and death to the new nation in just three generations.
The kind of thinking that cursed George III also poisoned the relations between the Indigenous peoples and the new Federal Government.
Nevertheless, the USA was able to adjust for its shortcomings, sometimes through bloodshed, but mostly through constitutionall established process.
No freer society has ever existed, and no greater economic or military force has ever existed.
The want our military help and money, That is all.
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